Means for mounting rubber containers in boxes



P. E. FENTON 1,787,364

MEANS FOR MOUNTING RUBBER CONTAINERS IN BOXES Filed May 10, 1927 Patented Dec. 30, 1930 UNTE STATES PATENT OFFICE PAUL E. FENTON, OF THOMASTON, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR TO SCOVILL MANUFAC- TURING COMPANY, OF WATERBURY, CONNECTICUT, A CORPORATION OF CONNECT- ICUT MEANS FOR MOUNTING RUBBER CONTAINERS IN BOXES Application filed May 10, 1927.

Flexible containers, such as rubber hot water bottles, syringe bags, ice bags and the like, are usually put up for sale in boxes, but

the box and through the eye in the tab and then placing a Washer over the tab and on the fastener and spreading the limbs of the fastener over the Washer.

These expedients do not meet the anticrumpling requirements and are not readily and economically applicable.

The ol ject of this invention is to remedy the objectionable features of the common expedients, and to provide for holding the container in its box under tension upon fixed retainers or holders on the box, one holder be ing used where there is only one tab on the container and two holders being used where both ends of the container are supplied with tabs.

The'invention consists in applying to the box, permanently and fixedly, an. ordinary button, over which the eye in the tab is stretched resiliently, one button being used where the container has only one tab, and a plurality of buttons being used where there are more than one tab, as I will proceed now tolexplain' and finally claim.

in the accompanying drawi illustrating the invention, in the several figures of which like parts are similarly designated. Figure 1 is a top plan view of a hot water bottle having tabs at opposite ends, mounted in a box having holder buttons at opposite ends, the box cover being omitted. and Fig. 2 is apartially sectional side elevation, showing thebox and its cover applied thereto, with allot water Serial No. 190,275.

bottle inclosed. 3 is a top plan view of a syringe bag mounted in a box minus the cover, and Fig. 4. is a partially sectional side elevation thereof with the cover in. place. Fig, a vertical section illustrating the use of one form of tack button, and Fig. 6 is a similar view illustrating the use of another form of tack button. the former being shown as used in Figs. 1 and 2 and the latter in Figs. 3 and i, it being understood that both forms of button are. common and well-known.

Referring to Figs. 1 and 2, the numeral 1 indicates a hot water bottle of well-known construction which has the mouth 2, and the tabs 3 and 4 at opposite ends. As well understood, the tab 3 is for use in suspending the bottle when being tilled or when filled or empty, and the tab 4 is for suspending the bottle in an inverted position to empty or drain it. The bottle is made of flexible. elastic material, such as rubber or laminated material, and the tabs are permanent parts of the bottle and are more or less distensible or elas tic. Each tab has an eye 5 thickened around its rim so as to reinforce it, as shown at 6 in Figs. 2. 4, 5 and 6.

The box comprises a body 7 and a cover 8. The body has mounted inside of it, near its opposite ends, the holders, shown as but tons. 9, arranged to aline with the eyes 5 in the tabs. The buttons comprise a head of larger diameter than the eyes 5, and a shank or hub of reduced diameter engaged by a tack 1O driven through the bottom of the body of the boxv from the outside inwardly into the button and clenched within its shank or hub, as illustrated in Figs. 5 and 6. These buttons may be set permanently and fixedly in the bottom of the body of the box by suitable and well-known attaching machines in an economical and expeditious manner. Instead of atack, there may be used an eyelet or rivet to attach the button, all of these fasteners being commonly used to set what the trade commonly designates tack butin a conventional way and in principle and bottle is mounted under more or less ten regardless of details of'construction.

The tabs being ofjre ient material tl eir eyes may be stretched or stended suiiiciently to be engaged with the buttons, so that the in the box and free of liability of crumphng and thereby in perfect condition for sales exposure. Moreover, the eyes being resilient it results that after being stretched or dis-' tended to pass over the heads'of the buttons, they resume normalcy and therefore hold on to the buttons and prevent acidental disengagement from them and so secure the container in mounted position.

Referring to Figs. 3, 4 and 6 the containeris shown as a syringe bag, 11, having an eyed tab 12 at one end engaging a button 13 fixed in the body of the box as before described. The nozzle or outletend .14 is supported in a hole in across-piece 15 fixed in the box, said nozzle engaging the hole more or "less frictionally so as not to escape from the crosspieceaccidentally.v

The-inventionis applicable to the mount ing in boxes of other articles than those mentioned.

silient eye, saidhead projecting within the box, and said resilient-eyed elastic tab capable ofbein stretched to )ass over the head of opposite ends, said box having buttons perniy hand this 9th day of May, A. D. 1927.

PAUL 'E. FENTON.

the button and thereafter resume normalcy and thus engage the button and prevent accidental disengagement therefrom and so secure the container in mounted .posltion in the box, the other end of the container being anchored to the box; 7

2. Means-for mounting a rubber container in a box, for shipping and display purposes,

, and retaining it therein without liability of crumpling, said container having'elastic tabs at opposite ends and provided with resilient eyes,-and the box having headed re 7 tainers, the heads of which are of'larger di- 

